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I attended both the infants and junior schools at Davyhulme in the 1950/1960s. I remember the swimming pool, which was a small room with few concrete steps up to it, after the door was opened. I learnt to swim there and was given a certificate stating that I had become waterborne. We used to go to the old Urmston baths and had to stop talking when we got to the house with the monkey puzzle tree in the garden.
I temeber our school caretaker, Mr Daniels. He would fill his wooden wheelbarrow with windfall apples and turn up in the playground so we could munch on them, and they were delicious. For an old shilling, we would also buy a bunch of dahlias to take home for mum. I used to enjoy our gardening lessons and remember planting Virginia Stock seeds and watching them grow.
During the cold winters, before the days of health and safety, Mr Daniels would splash buckets of water in a small in the playground which would freeze so that we could slide. Great fun.
I remember Mr Jolly, would sometimes give us a lift to school on the back of his motorbike if he passed us as we walked to school.
i have photos of when we went on a trip down the Manchester Ship Canal on The Egremont. Mr Williams with his Cine camera and Mrs Whitely.
The harp in the entrance hall/reception was something I remember. Son hard not to rung your hand across the strings.
Happy Days